Raja Sah @ Raja Gupta @ Raj Gupta v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.21329 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-277 Year-2024 Thana- MOHAMMADPUR District- Gopalganj ====================================================== Raja Sah @ Raja Gupta @ Raj Gupta Son of Vinodi Sah Ro village- Berai, PS -Hathaudi, Dist- Muzaffarpur, Bihar ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sumit Shekhar Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Kalyan Shankar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 30-07-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Mohammadpur P.S. Case No. 277 of 2024 instituted for the offences under Section 30(a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that total 759.6 litres of liquor was recovered from Tempo and Hyundai Verna Car.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case. The name of the petitioner transpired in this case as being owner of the seized car bearing Regd No. BR01HL-3566. The petitioner has got no concern with the alleged recovery of

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.21329 of 2025(4) dt.30-07-2025 2/2 liquor. Learned counsel for the petitioner, therefore, contends that prima-facie no case is made out against the petitioner. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent. There is no compliance of Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

5. Learned APP for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioner above named, in the event of arrest/surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Court below/concerned Court in connection with Mohammadpur P.S. Case No. 277 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) Raj Ranjan/- U T